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« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2014, 13:34:45 » |
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2014, 13:46:17 » |
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As ever it amazes me how different cultures develop differently. The Japanese accept it as the best way of ensuring the most passengers possible get on the train in the shortest possible time. Try that sort of thing over here and they'd be allegations of assault, claims that the trains are unsafe etc...
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2014, 15:18:36 » |
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As ever it amazes me how different cultures develop differently. The Japanese accept it as the best way of ensuring the most passengers possible get on the train in the shortest possible time. Try that sort of thing over here and they'd be allegations of assault, claims that the trains are unsafe etc...
japan is the most "different" culture I have dealt with. Wonderful place, but it is strange in a way that other countries that look superficially very different from the UK▸ are not. |
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2014, 17:52:55 » |
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As ever it amazes me how different cultures develop differently. The Japanese accept it as the best way of ensuring the most passengers possible get on the train in the shortest possible time. Try that sort of thing over here and they'd be allegations of assault, claims that the trains are unsafe etc...
japan is the most "different" culture I have dealt with. Wonderful place, but it is strange in a way that other countries that look superficially very different from the UK▸ are not. And after 3 years of living in the Netherlands, a country superficially very similar to the UK in ancestry and with quite deep historical ties, I can confirm it is actually rather different. Mainly quite small trivial things, but added together they make you realise we are in many ways quite different to some of our near neighbours. Life would be rather dull if we were all the same  |
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2014, 23:10:28 » |
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Just been shown this, perhaps its something FGW▸ might like to consider ? Would be particularly handy at Maidenhead me thinks   The moral of the story: if you are on a platform at Maidenhead Station in the rush hour and you see First Great Western staff wearing white gloves approaching you - beware!   |
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« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2014, 08:22:22 » |
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Just been shown this, perhaps its something FGW▸ might like to consider ? Would be particularly handy at Maidenhead me thinks The moral of the story: if you are on a platform at Maidenhead Station in the rush hour and you see First Great Western staff wearing white gloves approaching you - beware! White gloves at Maidenhead would be of no use .......... they really need boxing gloves |
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« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2014, 10:33:44 » |
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Despite the boarding assistants, the dwell time at that Japaneese station was rather long. Me thinks longer trains would be more effective in reducing dwell times, tell that to those who say we must have 1/3, 2/3 door layout on TPE▸ . Just make the trains longer, then passengers will find it eaiser to get on and off because there won't be so much 'pedestrian congestion'.
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Don't DOO▸ it, keep the guard (but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea if the driver unlocked the doors on arrival at calling points).
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« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2014, 13:41:47 » |
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Those chaps were far smarter and more polite than most FGW▸ staff too.....but then again if you're going to be doing that sort of thing I guess you need to keep a smile on your face!!!
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« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2014, 13:51:04 » |
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ust make the trains longer, then passengers will find it eaiser to get on and off because there won't be so much 'pedestrian congestion'.
No. Because you then have the situation of 15 people queuing for 1 door where there are 2 others empty right next to them. Seen it happen with HSTs▸ on many occasions. Is quite amusing when you just walk around them and open that other door. Or get accused of queue jumping...  |
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« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2014, 13:59:38 » |
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ust make the trains longer, then passengers will find it eaiser to get on and off because there won't be so much 'pedestrian congestion'.
No. Because you then have the situation of 15 people queuing for 1 door where there are 2 others empty right next to them. Seen it happen with HSTs▸ on many occasions. Is quite amusing when you just walk around them and open that other door. Or get accused of queue jumping... Also its a well know fact trains are only made longer at the wrong end of the train. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2014, 14:12:12 » |
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« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2014, 15:46:57 » |
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« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2014, 16:12:24 » |
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Couldn't one add a carriage, shorten the journey, and reduce the fare? |
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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2014, 01:33:50 » |
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Not forgetting Platform 13 at Bristol TM‡, and Pembroke Dock, Newquay and Weymouth in the Summer. Are there any more country end platform buffer stops visited by scheduled FGW▸ HSTs▸ ?  |
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